Topography of mainly hills and mountains. Phu Tho has 3 major rivers flowing through: the Red River (River Sports), and Lot river living. Average temperature of 23.4 º in C. Planning a trip to Vietnam? Get the best Vietnam Travel Deals from Viet Vision Travel.

Potential for tourism development

Hung Temple
Phu Tho is a land of C?i sources of culture. It was the day of Van Lang country – the first country in Vietnam, the capital was Phong Chau.

Phu Tho has culture vibrant long. The move only in the culture of Son, Dong Dau, and The Village home, temple, shrine, center around the rest of the mountain to see the Main Body of Asia is a center of culture and ethnicity.

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This is a land with many festivals, the most significant is the celebration of breath Hung Vuong (10 / 3 lunar calendar). Other ethnic minorities also have the cultural characteristics of their own: The Muong many indoctrinate, the knife, saying, singing xec meals, for singing, singing dum. Who have xoan sing, sing gh?o …
King Hung Festival is Phu Tho is a biggest festival in Vietnam and don’t miss it during your Vietnam Vacations.

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Transport by road, railway and waterway are favorable. Viet Tri city Hanoi 80^km months.

A busy and festive atmosphere can be felt everywhere in Viet Tri town, in the northern mountainous province of Phu Tho. This is the second year all the Vietnamese people can enjoy a holiday on the Hung Kings’ Death Anniversary Day. It’s expected that around 2.5 million of people will flock to the festival.

The Hung Kings Festival is the most important part of the programme “Back to Festive Region of Vietnam” which opened on the sixth day of the first lunar month at Au Co Mother Temple and will close on the tenth day of the lunar third month.

This year, Phu Tho province has restored and upgraded the Thuong (Upper) Temple. The Hung Kings Temple is well decorated. Many greeting gates, panels and large maps have been set up to give guidance to visitors.

Local authorities have paid more attention to services and security. The Legend restaurant can serve 600 guests at the same time.

Apart from the previous year’s traditional activities imbued with the culture of Phu Tho such as bronze drumming, lion dancing, wrestling and boating, this year will see more activities such as an exhibition cum fair introducing special fruits from provinces and cities with the theme “Best Fruits Offerings for the Hung Kings”.

The chung and day rice cake making competition has attracted the participation of 30 provinces and cities from the north to the south. The Hung Kings Museum will organise exhibition “Some Images on Hung Kings’ Death Anniversaries Nationwide – The Hung Kings’ Festival Past and Present.”  A musical performance and a poetry night will be held to warm up the festive atmosphere.

A seminar to work out criteria to develop “Cultural Space of Hung King Ancestral Land” will be organised for the first time for submission to UNESCO for recognition as world cultural heritage site.

The incense offering ceremony to commemorate the Hung Kings will take place at 7.30am on April 15 (or the tenth day of the third lunar month) at the Hung Kings’ Temple.

At a press conference in Ha Noi on Dec. 26, Nguyen Thi Kim Hai, Deputy Chairwoman of provincial People’s Committee of Phu Tho, introduced cultural and sports activities to be organised during the festival. The opening ceremony of the festival will be live broadcast by Viet Nam Television (VTV).

The main festive activities will be held in Viet Tri city through the 10th day of the third month according to the lunar calendar. Meanwhile, King Hung’s death anniversary and King Hung Temple festival will be organised from the 6th to 10th days of the third month according to the lunar calendar.

Other districts in Phu Tho, including Ha Hoa, Yen Lap, Tam Nong, Lam Thao, Cam Khe, Thanh Son, Thanh Thuy, Doan Hung and Phu Ninh, will also hold their own festivals with diverse activities, contests and traditional games.

According to MARD, there are too many tea processing workshops in the tea growing locations in the north, especially in Phu Tho, Thai Nguyen and Tuyen Quang, which has certainly led to a scramble to collect materials.

There are 75 processing workshops in Phu Tho, of which the private owned Phu Ben and Phu Da workshops alone can process 175,000 tonnes of fresh tender tea leaves a year. Meanwhile, the total output of tender tea leaves in the province in 2005 was 63,700 tonnes only, just meeting 36% of the total demand for materials from local processing workshops.

The serious shortage of materials has prompted local processing workshops to do everything they think necessary to get materials, including scrambling for purchasing materials and picking young tea leaves, which is a taboo in tea processing, because it can adversely affect tea quality.

Nguyen Van Thu, Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Tea Association said that all the tea leaves must be picked manually, however, the workers at Cuong Thinh and Hoai Chung companies in Phu Tho provinces do not do that.

The 25-30 cm buds, which consists of 5-6 leaves, are being picked by knife or reaping-hook, despite the warning about the bad quality of tea. Mr Thu said that farmers just think of collecting more tea leaves to sell for profit, while ignoring the long term consequenses.

MARD said that it is time to take actions to improve the current situation. It plans to close all the workshops that cannot meet the requirements on product hygiene.

In addition, local authorities have to take necessary measures to ensure the balanced development of processing workshops and tea growing areas.

According to MARD, the northern mountainous areas are the biggest tea growing areas. Several kinds of tea grown in these areas have become well known nationwide and in the international market, for example, Tan Cuong (Thai Nguyen Province), Thanh Ba (Phu Tho), and Moc Chau (Son La). The northern mountainous areas are growing 90,800 ha, accounting for 80.7% of Vietnam’s total tea area. Thai Nguyen province is leading the country in the tea growing area with 16,400 ha of tea, or 18.1% of total area.

Though the tea growing area has been increasing rapidly over the last ten years, 1996-2005, the number of tea processing workshops has been increasing even more rapidly. As a result, the total tea output is not big enough to feed the working processing plants thirsty for materials.

Another problem of Vietnam’s tea industry is the low yield. Experts said that medium-quality tea varieties are being grown in 70% of the total tea area. Only 2% of the total tea growing area in the north is being irrigated.